Guide to the Don T. Walker Photograph Collection

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. Box 457010 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-7010 [email protected] Guide to the Don T. Walker Photograph Collection

Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Note ...... 3 Scope and Contents Note ...... 4 Arrangement ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Names and Subjects ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5

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Summary Information

Repository: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. Creator: Walker, Don T., 1939-2013 Title: Don T. Walker Photograph Collection ID: PH-00280 Date [inclusive]: 1900-1995 Physical Description: 0.13 Cubic Feet (2 hanging files, 1 shared box.) Physical Description: 0.51 Linear Feet Language of the English Material: Abstract: The Don T. Walker Photograph Collection (1900-1995) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographs taken by or belonging to Las Vegas photographer and Nevada historian Don Travis Walker. The photographs taken by Walker include ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California, as well as a series on Phil Benson, editor and publisher of the Southern Nevada Times. Other items in the collection include photographs taken by other people related to the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas, various photographs of historic sites in Nevada, and a program from the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society for its "Moulin Rouge: History in the Making" exhibition. Preferred Citation Don T. Walker Photograph Collection, 1900-1995. PH-00280. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Biographical Note

Don Travis Walker (1939-2013) was a photographer and Nevada historian. Walker was born June 3, 1939, in Hugo, Oklahoma to J.T. Walker and Anna Mae Richards. He received his college degree from Langston University in 1963 and served in the U.S. Navy in 1963. After his discharge from the Navy, Walker worked at the Nevada Test Site as a communications firefighter specialist for 44 years until his retirement in 2007. Starting in the late 1980s, Walker began photographing various ghost towns throughout Nevada, Arizona, and California. Walker died August 16, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Source:

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Walker, Don T. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Accessed October 19, 2018. https://obits.reviewjournal.com/ obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=166578138

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Scope and Contents Note

The Don T. Walker Photograph Collection (1900-1995) is comprised of black-and-white and color photographs taken by or belonging to Las Vegas photographer and Nevada historian Don Travis Walker. The photographs taken by Walker include ghost towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California, as well as a series on Phil Benson, editor and publisher of the Southern Nevada Times. Other items in the collection include photographs taken by other people related to the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Las Vegas, various photographs of historic sites in Nevada, and a program from the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society for its "Moulin Rouge: History in the Making" exhibition.

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Arrangement

Materials remain in original order.

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Administrative Information

Access Note Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Acquisition Note Accession number 1996-026.

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Processing Note In 2018, as part of the archival backlog elimination project, Douglas Emery created the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.

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Names and Subjects

• Ghost towns • Showgirls – Nevada – Las Vegas – History • Casinos -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History • African American women -- Nevada -- Clark County • African Americans -- Nevada -- Las Vegas • Rhyolite (Nev.) • Mining camps • Photographs • Moulin Rouge (Hotel-Casino : Las Vegas, Nev.)

Collection Inventory

Title/Description Containers Southern Nevada Times editor and publisher Phil Benson standing in front of his print folder 01 shop near the old Arden plaster mines, 1992 (0280_0001)

Phil Benson in front of his office at the Southern Nevada Times Newspaper, 1992 folder 01 (0280_0002)

Phil Benson and his wife in front of the newspaper office, 1992 (0280_0003) folder 01

Phil Benson in front of his trailer home near the Arden plaster mines, 1992 folder 01 (0280_0004)

Phil Benson on the porch at his Southern Nevada Times newspaper office, 1992 folder 01 (0280_0005)

Phil Benson standing next to his private "Turkish bath", 1992 (0280_0006) folder 01

Rear of the Southern Nevada Times office. The old Arden plaster mines are on the cliff folder 01 directly over the bath house, 1992 (0280_0007)

One of the original Arden plaster mines of 1909, 1992 (0280_0008) folder 01

Phil Benson standing on the abandoned railroad bed of the Arden Plaster Company folder 01 narrow gauge track, 1992 (0280_0009)

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Phil Benson in a fake graveyard he created as a tribute to unforgettable characters in folder 01 Nevada history, 1992 (0280_0010)

View of Las Vegas from the mouth of the Arden plaster mine, 1992 (0280_0011) folder 01

Rhyolite Bottle House, Rhyolite, Nevada, 1988 (0280_0012) folder 01

Showgirls grouped together (including Dee Dee Jasmin at bottom right) in the dressing box room at the Moulin Rouge Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1955 May (0280_0013) SH-031

Showgirls on the Moulin Rouge float during the Helldorado parade, 1955 May-August box (0280_0014) SH-031

Showgirls on the Moulin Rouge float during the Helldorado parade, 1955 May-August box (0280_0015) SH-031

Anna Bailey and other entertainers at the Moulin Rouge Casino. Clockwise from top box left: Anna Bailey (left); Dianna Washington (2nd from right); Bob Bailey (far right). SH-031 Bottom row: Dee Dee Jasmin (far right), 1955 (0280_0016)

Archie Moore (in white robe) and his sparring partners at the Moulin Rouge, 1955 box (0280_0017) SH-031

Lionel Hampton (in white suit) with members of the Moulin Rouge show group, 1955 box (0280_0018) SH-031

Two showgirls in the kitchen at the Moulin Rouge, 1955 (0280_0019) box SH-031

Moulin Rouge Hotel facade, 1955 (0280_0020) box SH-031

Showgirl posed on the swimming pool diving board at the Moulin Rouge, 1955 box (0280_0021) SH-031

Program for exhibit, "Moulin Rouge: History in the Making," at Nevada State Museum folder 01 and Historical Society, 1993 March 26 (0280_0021)

Gold Point Nevada, 1992 (0280_0022) folder 01

Cherry Creek, Nevada, 1992 (0280_0023) folder 01

Miner's dugout in Gold Road, eight miles east of Oakman, Arizona (a silver mine), folder 01 1992 (0280_0024)

Cherry Creek train station moved to Ely, Nevada, 1992 (0280_0025) folder 01

Las Vegas Grammar School (first school in Las Vegas), 1905-1910 (0280_0026) folder 02

Fountain at the desert townsite of Carrara, Nevada, 1994 (0280_0027) folder 02

Miner's stone and adobe dugout in Candelaria, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0028) folder 02

Remnants of the old Goldfield red light district, 1993 (0280_0029) folder 02

Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad train depot in Rhyolite, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0030) folder 02

Remnants of the Candelaria building that served as a jail, bank, and saloon at one time folder 02 or another, 1993 (0280_0031)

Cabin at Grantsville, Nevada, three miles southeast of Berlin, 1993 (0280_0032) folder 02

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Cabin 18 miles south of Lee Vining, Nevada, near the junction of highways 395 and folder 02 120, 1992 (0280_0033)

Reconstructed mill house at the old mining town of Berlin, Nevada, 1991 September folder 02 (0280_0034)

Cat at a shack in Berlin, Nevada, 1991 (0280_0035) folder 02

Former campsite in Warm Springs, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0036) folder 02

View through the old school building looking out at the old Cook Bank to the left and folder 02 the Porter General Store to the right in Rhyolite, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0037)

Soldier pushing his motorcycle through a snowy road in Germany during World War folder 02 II, 1943 (0280_0038)

Ruins of Grantsville, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0039) folder 02

Westward view down main street at the ruins of Delmar, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0040) folder 02

Ruins of the bank building in Candelaria, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0041) folder 02

Schoolhouse at Grantsville, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0042) folder 02

Ruins of Union, Nevada, 1988-1995 (0280_0043) folder 02

Ward Charcoal Ovens in eastern Nevada, 1993 (0280_0044) folder 02

Ruins of jailhouse in Rhyolite, Nevada, 1988-1995 (0280_0045) folder 02

Abandoned antique car and cabin in Rhyolite, Nevada, 1992 (0280_0046) folder 02

Stone shack at Rhyolite, Nevada, 1993 (0280_0047) folder 02

Dugout on Gold Road, Arizona, 1992 (0280_0048) folder 02

Ruins of cabins at Bodie, California, 1992 (0280_0049) folder 02

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